It’s probably not a shock to you that the people leading the AI industry don’t have your best interests at heart. But what if we told you that some of them are actually pretty okay with humanity being subjugated, replaced, or wiped out, by the machines they’re creating?

In an essay for the Wall Street Journal, author David A. Price calls the tech figures in this camp the “cheerful apocalyptics.” And their philosophy seems to be that, whatever happens, advanced artificial life forms should be let loose — and if they surpass us, then so be it.

“I was used to thinking of AI leaders and researchers in terms of two camps: on one hand, optimists who believed it’s no problem to ‘align’ AI models with human interests,” Price wrote, “and on the other, doomers who wanted to call a time-out before

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